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Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or if you have slept or if you have head ache or sciatica or leprosy or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace and not pollute the morning.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.
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Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.
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The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - Let there be truth between us two forevermore.
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Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.
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By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations.
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A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.
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I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten even so, they have made me.
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